Williams James of UK National Lottery Board – Delicitation

I would love to think that the lottery I never signed up for and which originated on another continent, such as Europe, will get me the riches I always dreamed about.  All they want is my:

1. Name
2. Address
3. Amount Won (more on that in a jiffy)
4. Email
5. Country
6. Phone number
7. Age
8. Sex
9. Occupation

Really that’s it.  The United Kingdom National Lottery Board is just so generous.  I am ecstatic to provide the aforementioned 9 items to facilitate the payout process.  But, maybe I should watch out for signs of identity theft first.  Why would I get such an email in the first place? Oh the first sentence sums it up quite well.

Williams James of UK National Lottery Board – Delicitation

We happily announce to you again about our LOTTERY price won by you a week ago.

I knew it. That lottery entry…from a week ago. Now I remember, again!

You have been approved to claim a total sum of{�750,000}pounds.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporatebodies that are listed online.

Don’t kid yourself if you see this email scam in your inbox, of course amongst many more email scams. Millions of people see this, or a derivative, of this email daily in their quest to fight spam.  However, this may be the first time or your 527th time you got this great news.  But you know that winning �750,000 is not a real number and is just a bunch of poorly executed text formatting.  A grand mistake for the scammers, which should be an immediate indicator that something is wrong.

Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number:03- 15-19-24-28-34 (with bonus ball 17)drewa prize of �750,000 per winner.

Were you truly a participant or did your email land on a spammer’s list? As far as I can see the weird sum of money was a result of a prize “drewa.”  Yes, it is a typo that would be most likely corrected by a real lottery agency that doesn’t spam you.

This lucky  draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.

Good to know.  It is a good technique to get you drawn into the scam.  The more illustrative the email the better for the con artists who are phishing (not fishing) for your identity.

Contact Our Claim Agent WILLIAMS JAMES
via below Email
EMAIL:williamsjames12@hotma

The text seems to play in your favor as it doesn’t have the full Hotmail domain — @hotmail.com — instead you are left thinking is this reputable, and why would James or Williams use a Hotmail email address?  Did the UK national Lottery run out of its own domain: con_artist@uknationallottery.com.uk

with the Following
NAME:
ADDRESS:
AMOUNT WON:
EMAIL:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NUMBER
AGE:
SEX
OCCUPATION:

You may think there is nothing wrong with providing these items to anyone.  It doesn’t have your social security number, and therefore, your are safe from id theft. Right? WRONG!!  This information is enough for a persistent fraudster to dig up ALL your personal information.  They have people, resources, and even companies (like private eye firms) doing the digging for them.  The end result is that your credit cards are maxed out by some guy in England, or even in the U.S., and you are pulling your hair out because you didn’t take out identity theft insurance.

Congratulations in advance.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Carolyna Anderson.
EmailCopyright � 2008

Mr. Willaims James and Mrs. Carolyna Anderson will probably request that you transfer over a sum of money so they can process your claim.  Exciting stuff! Pay money to get lottery money that doesn’t really exist. Please don’t justify it as an investment, because that is what they will tell you.  If you are speaking on the phone with the masterminds of this criminal identity theft swindle than you are already too far.  Get yourself out of the equation and contact your local authorities in order to start restoring your credit, which by now probably has been infringed upon by the con artists.

Yes, congratulations. You just got duped…BIG TIME!